Caraquet is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was created in 1973 from Gloucester. The riding is centred on the town of Caraquet, extending west to Grande-Anse, New Brunswick and Saint-Léolin, New Brunswick and south to Hautes-Terres, New Brunswick.
 New Brunswick electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 The riding of Caraquet (as it exists from 2023) in relation to other New Brunswick electoral districts | |||
| Coordinates: | 47°43′52″N 64°59′28″W / 47.731°N 64.991°W | ||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick | ||
| MLA |
Liberal | ||
| District created | 1973 | ||
| First contested | 1974 | ||
| Last contested | 2020 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2011) | 12,866[1] | ||
| Electors (2013) | 11,004[2] | ||
| Census division(s) | Gloucester | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Caraquet, Grand-Anse, Hautes-Terres, Saint-Léolin | ||
Members of the Legislative Assembly
edit| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riding created from Gloucester | ||||
| 48th | 1974–1978 | Onil Doiron | Liberal | |
| 49th | 1978–1982 | |||
| 50th | 1982–1987 | Emery Robichaud | Progressive Conservative | |
| 51st | 1987–1991 | Bernard Thériault | Liberal | |
| 52nd | 1991–1995 | |||
| 53rd | 1995–1999 | |||
| 54th | 1999–2000 | |||
| 2001–2003 | Gaston Moore | Progressive Conservative | ||
| 55th | 2003–2006 | Hédard Albert | Liberal | |
| 56th | 2006–2010 | |||
| 57th | 2010–2014 | |||
| 58th | 2014–2018 | |||
| 59th | 2018–2020 | Isabelle Thériault | ||
| 60th | 2020–2024 | |||
| 61st | 2024–Present | |||
Election results
edit| 2020 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Isabelle Thériault | 5,928 | 72.27 | +8.49 | ||||
| Green | Marie-Christine Haché | 1,290 | 15.73 | +11.84 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Kevin Haché | 985 | 12.01 | -9.49 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 8,203 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 64 | 0.77 | +0.28 | |||||
| Turnout | 8,267 | 75.65 | -1.44 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 10,928 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -1.68 | ||||||
| Source: Elections New Brunswick[3] | ||||||||
| 2018 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Isabelle Thériault | 5,420 | 63.78 | +6.96 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Kevin Haché | 1,827 | 21.50 | -0.36 | ||||
| New Democratic | Katy Casavant | 548 | 6.45 | -12.58 | ||||
| Independent | Guilmond Hébert | 373 | 4.39 | -- | ||||
| Green | Yvon Durelle | 330 | 3.88 | +1.58 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 8,498 | 99.51 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 42 | 0.49 | -0.06 | |||||
| Turnout | 8,540 | 77.09 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 11,078 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +3.66 | ||||||
| 2014 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Hédard Albert | 4,716 | 56.82 | +6.74 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Suzanne Morais-Vienneau | 1,814 | 21.86 | -19.74 | ||||
| New Democratic | Mathieu Chayer | 1,579 | 19.02 | +13.47 | ||||
| Green | Sophie Chiasson-Gould | 191 | 2.30 | -0.46 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 8,300 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 46 | 0.55 | ||||||
| Turnout | 8,346 | 74.94 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 11,137 | |||||||
| Liberal notional hold | Swing | +13.24 | ||||||
| [4] | ||||||||
| 2010 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Hédard Albert | 3,661 | 50.08 | -13.33 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Philip Chiasson | 3,041 | 41.60 | +18.38 | ||||
| New Democratic | Claudia Julien | 406 | 5.55 | -7.82 | ||||
| Green | Mathieu Chayer | 202 | 2.76 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 7,310 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 70 | 0.95 | ||||||
| Turnout | 7,380 | 81.26 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 9,082 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -15.86 | ||||||
| [5] | ||||||||
| 2006 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Hédard Albert | 4,580 | 63.41 | +15.75 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Claude L'Espérance | 1,677 | 23.22 | -23.17 | ||||
| New Democratic | Stephane Doiron | 966 | 13.37 | +7.40 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 7,223 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 136 | 1.85 | ||||||
| Turnout | 7,359 | 78.77 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 9,342 | |||||||
| Liberal notional hold | Swing | +19.46 | ||||||
| [6] | ||||||||
| 2003 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Hédard Albert | 3,649 | 47.66 | +3.33 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Gaston Moore | 3,550 | 46.39 | -6.85 | ||||
| New Democratic | Gérard Béland | 457 | 5.97 | +3.54 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 7,656 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | +5.09 | ||||||
| Changes are from the 2001 by-election. | ||||||||
| New Brunswick provincial by-election, 2001 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Gaston Moore | 4,122 | 53.24 | +11.95 | ||||
| Liberal | Roberta Dugas | 3,432 | 44.33 | -7.07 | ||||
| New Democratic | Gérard Béland | 188 | 2.43 | -4.87 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 7,742 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +9.51 | ||||||
| 1999 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Bernard Thériault | 4,194 | 51.40 | -2.20 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Gaston Moore | 3,369 | 41.29 | +19.15 | ||||
| New Democratic | Denis Doiron | 596 | 7.30 | -14.69 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 8,159 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -10.68 | ||||||
| 1995 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Bernard Thériault | 4,367 | 53.60 | -0.77 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Bernard Haché | 1,804 | 22.14 | -1.25 | ||||
| New Democratic | Jean-Marie Nadeau | 1,792 | 21.99 | -0.25 | ||||
| Natural Law | Marc Boulay | 68 | 0.83 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 8,031 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +0.24 | ||||||
| 1991 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Bernard Thériault | 5,298 | 54.37 | -0.30 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Gilbert Godin | 2,279 | 23.39 | -20.29 | ||||
| New Democratic | Roger Duguay | 2,167 | 22.24 | +20.58 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 9,744 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +10.00 | ||||||
| 1987 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Bernard Thériault | 5,642 | 54.67 | +15.74 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Emery Robichaud | 4,508 | 43.68 | -4.49 | ||||
| New Democratic | Gérard Rousselle | 171 | 1.66 | -1.17 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 10,321 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | +10.12 | ||||||
| 1982 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Emery Robichaud | 4,619 | 48.17 | +14.21 | ||||
| Liberal | Onil Doiron | 3,733 | 38.93 | -8.54 | ||||
| Parti acadien | Louise Blanchard | 966 | 10.07 | -8.48 | ||||
| New Democratic | Yvon Roy | 271 | 2.83 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 9,589 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +11.38 | ||||||
| 1978 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Onil Doiron | 3,925 | 47.47 | -4.98 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Beatrice "Bibi" Doiron | 2,809 | 33.97 | -10.66 | ||||
| Parti acadien | Michel Blanchard | 1,534 | 18.55 | +15.63 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 8,268 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +2.84 | ||||||
| 1974 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Liberal | Onil Doiron | 3,749 | 52.45 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Fernand Lanteigne | 3,190 | 44.63 | |||||
| Parti acadien | Hector Boudreau | 209 | 2.92 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 7,148 | 100.0 | ||||||
| This riding was created from the multi-member riding of Gloucester, which elected 5 (of 5) Liberals in 1970; one Progressive Conservative was elected in a 1972 by-election. None of the five incumbents ran in this riding. | ||||||||
References
edit- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 5, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 5, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Unofficial Results". Elections NB. Archived from the original on September 16, 2020. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
- ^ Elections New Brunswick (2014). "Declared Results, 2014 New Brunswick election". Archived from the original on October 14, 2014. Retrieved October 15, 2014.
- ^ Elections New Brunswick (2010). "Thirty-seventh General Election - Report of the Chief Electoral Officer" (PDF). Retrieved December 29, 2014.
- ^ Elections New Brunswick (2006). "Thirty-sixth General Election - Report of the Chief Electoral Officer" (PDF). Retrieved January 12, 2015.
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